Dragon tail
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 29 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 7 ″ E
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| Convicted | pedestrian | |
| Subjugated | Gessenbach (White Elster) | |
| place | Ronneburg (Thuringia) | |
| construction | Tension band bridge | |
| overall length | 225 m | |
| width | 3.0 - 4.3 m | |
| Longest span | 65 m | |
| building-costs | € 1.6 million | |
| opening | August 4, 2006 | |
| architect | Richard Johann Dietrich | |
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At 225 m, the dragon's tail is the longest wooden bridge in Europe. The pedestrian bridge in Ronneburg , Thuringia , was built on the occasion of the Federal Horticultural Show 2007 and inaugurated on August 4, 2006. It leads across the Gessental and connects two areas of the New Ronneburg Landscape , the Ronneburg BUGA area.
The bridge is a tension band construction made of wood based on a design by the Munich architect Richard Johann Dietrich . Their greatest height above ground is 25 m and their width is 3.0 to 4.3 m. The spans are 65 m + 15 m + 65 m + 15 m + 65 m = 225 m. There are 1,100 cubic meters of wood in the bridge, which received the (best) grade of 1.5 when the bridge was inspected. According to the architecture office, the costs amounted to 1.6 million euros.
The name dragon tail is derived from the undulating course of the building and was determined in a reader competition for a local newspaper. The originally proposed name was dragon back , but due to the bumpy pronunciation it became dragon tail.
As one of four German traffic structures, the kite's tail was awarded the Renault Traffic Future Award 2007 on November 22, 2007 .
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Web links
- "Dragon tail - Europe's longest wooden bridge" Article by MDR Thuringia ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Information about the bridge from the architecture office
- Information from the Federal Garden Show 2007 about the bridge ( Memento from August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Dragon tail. In: Structurae